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The men who made the nation : twelve university extension lectures, forming an outline of United States history from 1760- to 1865 by Edwin Erle Sparks
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Gaa.376
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sparks, Edwin Erle, 1860-1924.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Biography.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 415 p. : ill., facsims. ; 19 cm.
- Edition:
- [New ed.].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Macmillan, 1906.
- Contents:
- Benjamin Franklin, the colonial agent in England
- Samuel Adams, the man of the town meeting
- John Adams, the partisan of independence
- Robert Morris, the financier of the revolution
- Alexander Hamilton, the advocate of stronger government
- George Washington, the first president
- Thomas Jefferson, the exponent of democracy
- Henry Clay, the father of public improvements
- Andrew Jackson, the people's president
- Daniel Webster, the defender of the Constitution
- Horace Greeley, the anit-slave editor
- Abraham Lincoln, a new type of American.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
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